Iran Press/Iran News: Abu Rayhan Mohammad ibn Ahmad Al-Biruni known as Al-Biruni was from a Persian scholar and polymath the Khwarazm region, a part of ancient Persia and Greater Iran.
Biruni is regarded as one of the greatest scholars of the medieval Islamic era. He was well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy, and natural sciences, and also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist and linguist.
Conversant in Khwarezmian, Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit, he also knew Greek and Hebrew. He spent a large part of his life in Ghazni in modern-day Afghanistan, which served as the capital of the Ghaznavid dynasty in what is now central-eastern Afghanistan.
In 1017 he traveled to the Indian subcontinent and authored 'Tarikh al-Hind' (History of India) after exploring the Hindu faith practiced in India. He has given the titles the 'Founder of Indology'. He was an impartial writer on the custom and creeds of various nations and was given the title 'The Master' for his remarkable description of early 11th-century India.
He also made contributions to Earth sciences and is regarded as the 'father of geodesy' for his important contributions to that field, along with his significant contributions to geography.
In June 2009 Iran donated a scholar pavilion to the United Nations Office in Vienna—placed in the central Memorial Plaza of the Vienna International Center. The Persian Scholars Pavilion at United Nations in Vienna, Austria is featuring the statues of four prominent Iranian figures; Avicenna, Biruni, Zakariya Razi, and Omar Khayyam. 101/219
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